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Thereupon she glided up to her and said gently: "If ye'll tell me whaur ye bide, I s' tak ye hame." "What do they ca' you, bairn?" returned the blind woman, in a gruff, almost manlike voice, hardly less unpleasant to hear than her face was to look at. "Annie Anderson," answered Annie. "Ow, ay! I thoucht as muckle. I ken a' aboot ye.
"Wad ye no tell me whaur the bit thing cam frae, or is supposit to hae come frae, sir; H'ard ye it ever said, for enstance,'at the auld captain they tell o' had broucht it?" "That's what I hae h'ard said," answered the laird. "Weel, sir," returned Jeames, "gien ye had nae objection, I wad fain mak' oot what the thing is made o'."
"Naething but the doup o' ane, Jean. It 's no to ca' a mune. "Ay, lantren lats them see whaur ye are, an' haud oot o' yer gait," said Jean, who happened not to relish going out that night. "Troth, wuman, ye 're richt there!" returned her mistress, with cheerful assent. "The mair they see o' ye, the less they 'll meddle wi' ye caird or cadger.
He had not sat more than a minute, when he saw her eyes fixed upon the horse. "What's that ye hae there, Cosmo?" she said. "This?" returned Cosmo. "It's a cane I pickit up upo' my traivels. What think ye o' 't?" He held it out to her, but she did not move her hand towards it. "Whaur got ye't?" she asked, her eyes growing larger as she looked.
Was it no provoking? Onybody can turn up Genesis, but it needs an able-bodied man to find Ezra." "He preached on the Fall," Elspeth said, "for an hour and twenty- five minutes, but powerful though he was I would rather he had telled us what made him gie the go-by to Ezra." "All I can say," said Waster Lunny, "is that I never heard him mair awe-inspiring. Whaur has he got sic a knowledge of women?
Donal would have had him go down and spend a day, every now and then, with him and the nowt, as in old times so soon the times grow old to the young! but Janet would not hear of it, until the foolish tale of the brownie should have quite blown over. "Eh, but I wuss," she added, as she said so, "I cud win at something aboot his fowk, or aiven whaur he cam frae, or what they ca'd him!
"What in mercy can hae come o' the laird, think ye, my leddy?" said Grizzie to her mistress. "It's the yoong laird's birthday, ye see, an' they aye haud a colloguin' thegither upo' that same, an' I kenna whaur to gang to cry them till their denner." "Run an' ring the great bell," said the grandmother, mindful of old glories.
He was thinking over something Mr Graham had said to him a few days before, namely, that all impatience of monotony, all weariness of best things even, are but signs of the eternity of our nature the broken human fashions of the divine everlastingness. "I dinna ken whaur it comes frae," said a voice above him. He looked up.
"Jean, tell me all aboot it, an' I'll pit my mind to it and help ye think it oot. Don't ye leave oot a thing fra' the time ye left me till the noo." Slowly Jean poured her sister's tea and handed it to her. "Tak' yer scones while they're hot, Ellen. I went to the place whaur he'd been leevin'. I had the direction all right, but whan I called, I found anither man in possession.
I wudna winder to see him some day wi' Donal' yokit i' the tattie-cairt wi' his heid ower the fore-end o't, an' the hurdles o' him whaur his heid shud be. I've heard Sandy say that he had an idea that a horse cud shuve far better than poo; an' when Sandy ance gets an idea intil his heid, there's some beast or body has to suffer for't afore he gets redd o't.
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